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Elizabeth Houston

Supervisory Patent Examiner (ID: 14376, Phone: (571)272-7134 , Office: P/3731 )

Most Active Art Unit
3731
Art Unit(s)
3731, 3773, 3753, 3771
Total Applications
578
Issued Applications
235
Pending Applications
6
Abandoned Applications
337

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/202132
Autonomous companion mobile robot and system Mar 14, 2021 Issued
Array ( [id] => 17762751 [patent_doc_number] => 20220236363 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2022-07-28 [patent_title] => Time-Of-Flight Vehicle User Localization Distance Determination [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 17/157710 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2021-01-25 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 0 [patent_figures_cnt] => 0 [patent_no_of_words] => 11147 [patent_no_of_claims] => 0 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => -17 [patent_words_short_claim] => 93 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 17157710 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
17/157710
Time-of-flight vehicle user localization distance determination Jan 24, 2021 Issued
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17/248068
PASSENGER-ORIENTED TRANSFER SYNCHRONIZATION OPTIMIZATION METHOD AND PASSENGER-ORIENTED TRANSFER SYNCHRONIZATION OPTIMIZATION DEVICE Jan 6, 2021 Pending
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17/124838
Multiple degree of freedom force sensor Dec 16, 2020 Issued
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17/124387
Method and system for facility monitoring and reporting to improve safety using robots Dec 15, 2020 Issued
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17/109166
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROUTE SEARCHING Dec 1, 2020 Abandoned
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17/076652
DIGITAL CONTEXT-AWARE DATA COLLECTION Oct 20, 2020 Abandoned
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17/071916
Surgical instruments for use in robotic surgical systems and methods relating to the same Oct 14, 2020 Issued
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17/069431
Centerfinding for a process kit or process kit carrier at a manufacturing system Oct 12, 2020 Issued
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17/014545
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROBOTIC PICKING Sep 7, 2020 Pending
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16/997334
Catheter control system and graphical user interface Aug 18, 2020 Issued
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18/040698
Method of controlling industrial actuator, control system, and industrial actuator system Aug 12, 2020 Issued
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16/991932
Position accuracy robotic printing system Aug 11, 2020 Issued
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16/947565
Determining routes for autonomous vehicles Aug 5, 2020 Issued
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16/935231
Robot mapping method and robot and computer readable storage medium using the same Jul 21, 2020 Issued
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16/929874
Visual annotations in robot control interfaces Jul 14, 2020 Issued
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16/913348
Affordance-aware, multi-resolution, free-form object manipulation planning Jun 25, 2020 Issued
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16/906082
Device and method for acquiring deviation amount of working position of tool Jun 18, 2020 Issued
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16/904071
Methods, systems, and devices for displaying maps Jun 16, 2020 Issued
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16/893608
Robot localization using variance sampling Jun 4, 2020 Issued
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